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| Zimbabwe's
Plunge |
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| Author:
Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya |
Published
by: Merlin Press. |
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Additional
publishers:Harare, Weaver Press; Pietermaritzburg, University
of Natal Press; Trenton,
Africa World Press. |
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| An
incisive,original analysis of contemporary Zimbabwean
politics and economics. |
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Zimbabwe's
government is tired and discredited. Mugabe's
ZANU (PF) party has stretched the country to breaking
point. What will come next? Can the society shift
from domination by an exhausted nationalist clique,
ruling by terror and intimidation, to a "neo-liberal"
free-market economy, as advocated by international
financiers and the big-business wing of the opposition
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)?
Taking the plunge in either direction will depend
upon whether voters can cast ballots in a free-and-fair
March 2002 presidential election, and whether
the military will go through with their veiled
threat to carry out a coup d'etat if Mugabe loses.
No matter who wins, this book argues that Zimbabwe
must explicitly confront the myriad of political-economic
contradictions that bedevil both nationalists
and neo-liberals. An alternative political project
is sketched out, inspired in part by Frantz Fanon,
drawing upon the Zimbabwean people's own struggles
for social justice and correlating to the rising
international movements for social justice.
The social, political and economic lessons from
Zimbabwe are relevant, the authors insist, to
any other society in turmoil. This book makes
essential international comparisons, and applies
great analytical depth to this country's fast-shifting
political landscape. Four appendices provide current
seminal economic texts from ZANU(PF), the MDC,
the National Working People's Convention and Jubilee
South. |
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| March
9, 2002. |
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